From daemon Thu Jun 24 02:52:27 1999 Received: from banzai.cecm.sfu.ca (root@banzai.cecm.sfu.ca [142.58.12.67]) by merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA20440 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 02:52:25 +0200 Received: from bb.cecm.sfu.ca (bb.cecm.sfu.ca [142.58.12.68]) by banzai.cecm.sfu.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15987; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Borwein Received: (from jborwein@localhost) by bb.cecm.sfu.ca (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA66181; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906240124.SAA66181@bb.cecm.sfu.ca> Subject: Re: The Future of Mathematical Communication, 1999 To: hilf@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de (Eberhard Hilf) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jpb@reed.edu (Joe Buhler) In-Reply-To: <199906221222.OAA21279@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de> from "Eberhard Hilf" at Jun 22, 99 02:22:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Dear Eberhard: I imagine this will fit quite well. I'll be back in touch soon. Jonathan > dear Dr . Borwein, > just in case that the concept of your meeting > The Future of Mathematical Communication, 1999 > finds it suitable to include a presentation of what is going on in physics > a tentative abstract and title could be > ........................ > Thomas Severiens and Eberhard R. Hilf > > 'Physics Network Worldwide: Experiences and Plans' > > 1. PHP professional (metadata driven) home pages > for Individuals and Institutions > -experiences, prospects of add on services > > 2. distributed network of all worldwide Physics Institutions > general information, documents, theses > > 3. field-specific 'portals' for information and communication. > > 4. ongoing active virtual research workfields, the role of researchers > > It is argued that future information and communication systems in science > are to be stable, free access over the web, complete (all relevant > information of that science but not more), intelligent (understand scientific > terms). > Thus in Physics we aim at a fully distributed worldwide complete information > system with a distributed set of brokers and gatherers and no center. > > Part of these services (PHP, MMM) are originally developed by or > done in conjunction with Roland Schwaenzl and Judith Pluemer, Dept. Mathematics Univ. Osnabrueck. > -- > Prof. Dr. Dr. Eberhard R. Hilf Department of Physics > Tel.: (+49)-441-798-2543 Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg > FAX : (+49)-441-798-3201 D 26111 Oldenburg > Germany > -- CECM Jonathan Borwein Shrum Professor of Science, FRSC o _ Director Centre for = Experimental and Constructive o o Mathematics Mathematics & Statistics Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6 Phone:604 291-3070/5617 FAX:604 291-5614/4947 email:jborwein@cecm.sfu.ca URL:www.cecm.sfu.ca/~jborwein/ ftp:ftp.cecm.sfu.ca ^^^ ^^^